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December 5, 2019
How do you protect a tunnel where boulders fly through it at 50 mph? You line it with granite
By SAM BENNETT
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Photos courtesy of Garney Construction
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Garney Construction placed 2,000 granite blocks, weighing 1,350 pounds each, in the tunnel’s floor at Mud Mountain Dam. The tunnel is pummeled by boulders as large as 2 feet in diameter.
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